The White House has unveiled a proposal that it hopes will free cable subscribers from having to lease set-top boxes, potentially saving the average family hundreds of dollars a year.Cable and ...

UPDATE with MPAA and DGA statements: FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel doesn’t seem to be on board yet with chairman Tom Wheeler’s plan to help independent manufacturers sell cable set-top boxes.

The FCC has good news this morning for cable and satellite companies, but bad news for their subscribers who hate the set-top boxes they usually must lease in order to watch TV. The agency’s new ...

President Obama is throwing his weight behind a plan that would lead to competition in the market for set-top cable and satellite TV boxes. Most viewers now rent the boxes from their TV providers. The ...